About

Eszter Burghardt is a Canadian-Hungarian artist based in Vancouver BC, Canada. After graduating with a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2001 she spent three years at artist residencies in Iceland where her photo/sculptural work began. Her work was selected as a winner for the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Festival in 2010. In 2012 she was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant to travel to the Canadian Arctic on Baffin Island to work on a series about Arctic animals. She is represented by the Herringer Kiss Gallery. You can watch a CBC Arts documentary here about her current work.

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S O L O S H O W S

2018 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Esti Mese - Sculptures from a Bedtime Story.

2015 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Habitat ,Calgary, Canada.

2013 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Tales for Tuktu, Calgary, Canada.

2011 Bau - Xi Gallery, Edible Vistas, Vancouver, Canada.

2010 Bau - Xi Gallery, Wooly Sagas, Toronto, Canada.

2009 Bau - Xi Gallery, Tundra's Tale Vancouver, Canada.

2007 Bau -Xi Gallery, Bog Tales Vancouver, Canada.

2006 Bau-Xi Gallery, Of Sea and Grass Games Vancouver, Canada .

2005 Augen Gallery. Portland, USA.

2004 Augen Gallery. Portland,USA.

G R O U P S H O W S

2018 Inform Interiors , Granville Island walking tour, and the Roundhouse Community Center. In conjunction with the Textile Society of America 2018 Symposium. Vancouver, Canada.

2018 Exposure Photo Festival. Calgary, Canada.

2017 SSNAP Salt Spring National Art Prize. Salt Spring Island, Canada.

2013 Toronto International Art Fair. Toronto, Canada.

2013 Nanaimo Art Gallery, Ancients Among Us :The Art and Science of Sturgeon. Nanaimo, Canada.

2012 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Collecting Photography, Collecting The World. Fredericton, Canada.

2011 Cave Gallery at Russell Industrial Center, Detroit Michigan Island 22 Artists on Iceland.Presented by Eastern Michigan University, Detroit, USA.

2011 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, Canada

2010 Strathcona Press, Dhammapada Revisited. Nanaimo, Canada.

2009 Bau-Xi Gallery, Holiday Show.

2009,08,07,06 Toronto International Art Fair. Toronto, Canada.

2008,07, 06, 05 Bau-Xi Gallery, Holiday Show.

E D U C A T I O N

2001 BFA Emily Carr University

A W A R D S

2012 Canada Council for the Arts. Project Grant.

2010 Flash Forward Festival: Selected as a winner for the Magenta Foundation's

Flash Forward Festival featuring emerging photographers from UK, USA and Canada.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

2018 CBC Arts The Exhibitionists Woolly tales: Eszter Burghardt is needle-felting her childhood memories into art. May 2 2018.

2018 CBC Arts Take another look at that volcano, because what it's made of will blow your mind Jan 2 2018.

2017 Canadian Art Magazine, winter issue The Graduates p.70

2017 Vogue Knitting Magazine, late winter issue In Sheep's Clothing p.20

2013 Highline Magazine summer issue Caribou Comeback p.36-37

2011 I Mali Og Myndum volume 2. Pieces of and on Iceland. A Norwegian Publication by Torgeir Husevaag and Catrine Thorstensen. p.72 - 75

2010 Room Magazine volume 33.2 front cover art.

2010 Magenta Foundation: Flash Forward Festival Catalogue

A R T I S T R E S I D E C I E S

2011 Nes Artist Residency, Iceland.

2010 Nes Artist Residency, Iceland.

2009 SIM- The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Iceland.

T E A C H I N G

2010 Langara College, Vancouver BC. Guest lecturer.

2009 Brackendale Art Gallery School of Art, Brackedale BC. Oil painting workshop.

2006 Seymour Art Gallery, Deep Cove BC. Kids art class instructor.

A R T A U C T I O N S

2013 Splash, Arts Umbrella

2011 Art with Heart,Casey House.

2011 Unite With Art.

2010 Unite With Art.

2010 Splash, Arts Umbrella.

2009 Splash, Arts Umbrella.

2008 Art For Life.

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